<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[[Water and ice deliveries were also tardy at some of the 11 distribution points opened in Miami-Dade County.] Ladies and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Water and ice deliveries were also tardy at some of the 11 distribution points opened in Miami-Dade County.] Ladies and gentlemen, we're trying, ... We're really trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to figure out how to use the suggestions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head and coming to work every day, it makes you want to play harder for the guy. People were getting crazy out there. There's nothing better than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20961]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was safe over here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was safe over here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26368]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57183]]></link><description><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33655]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers. The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385]]></link><description><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120</guid></item></channel></rss>